(CNN) — Do you know your “yeah, nah” from your “nah, yeah”? Or your “woop woop” from your “wig out”? Australians have long prided themselves on putting their own twist on the English language. Across ...

Carn, spew, and goon are some of the colloquialisms added to the Australian edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. Carla Mascarenhas is a journalist with Explore Travel and The Senior. She ...

While some of the new additions, including words from 100 indigenous languages, have been used in our lingo for a while this is the first comprehensive update to the dictionary since 1988. And we have ...

Australians have long prided themselves on putting their own twist on the English language. Across the English-speaking world, they’ve become famous for their penchant for shortening words like ...